Joe Biden was in crisis talks with Senate Democratic rebels Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema at the White House on Thursday night after they thwarted his high-stakes efforts to push voting rights legislation through Congress, according to several reports.
By the evening, however, Biden was huddled back at the White House in last-ditch talks with Sinema and Manchin,Sinema had taken to the Senate floor around noon opposing any changes to the filibuster, the Senate rule that requires 60 votes to advance legislationcurrently hold a bare majority in the 100-seat chamber and two voting rights bills are stalled.
She added: “We must address the disease itself, the disease of division, to protect our democracy, and it cannot be achieved by one party alone. It cannot be achieved solely by the federal government. The response requires something greater and, yes, more difficult than what the Senate is discussing today.”
For months, Sinema and Manchin have staunchly defended the filibuster, which stands as the major hurdle to voting rights reform. No Republicans support either the voting rights bills or changing the rules of the filibuster, so Democrats cannot do anything unless both senators are on board.
Sinema and Manchin are bought and paid for by big corporations and are only interested in representing their interests.
Love how 'progressives' talk about the disease of division - it is the 'progressives' who subdivided populations into categories of people
she is a closet Republican she is sabotaging her own party many times
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